Joanna Coles

“Nothing's more important than who you love and who loves you back.”

“I think that women's lives are multilayered.”

“If you keep dating and keep out there, you keep a higher level of hope, and also, your skills at doing it improve because you're doing it more often, and you are bringing less anxiety to the table.”

“Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.”

“Love and food are very similar in many ways. We can't survive without them, and they bring us great joy, and just as there is junk food, and you can become obese, there's also junk love.”

“People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.”

“It's very easy to imagine someone online in a positive way, but it's only when you sit down, with all five senses in play, that you can really tell, 'Do I find this person attractive?'”

“'Marie Claire' is one of those magazines that doesn't feel as well known as it should be.”

“As I've gotten older, I've become much more effective at seeking and accepting help and bringing other people into the discussion. You start to understand that you can't control or fix everything on your own.”

“I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.”

“Having diverse leadership means there are more voices in the room, and there are more different points of entry for people who are being bullied or abused at work. There are more points of entry for them to complain to.”

“We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.”

“It's fun working with smart, young women.”

“Feminism means, basically, are you in favor of equal opportunities for men and women? It's hard to argue with that.”

“I'm just super nosy, I love trying to understand what's going on.”

“There's nothing more mainstream than equal pay for equal work. I mean, it's completely obvious that's what feminism should be for, and for women's right to choose what happens to their own bodies.”

“I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also sent it to the Queen of England.”

“You can't back-engineer a brand.”

“Dating apps are brilliant for expanding your actual social network, which leads you to meet other people.”

“People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But the advantage is you get to hear someone else's voice. You find out whether or not you can have a fluid conversation or if it's stilted and peculiar.”